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Plans for a warehouse in Newmarket have been approved by Forest Heath District Council, despite strong objections from residents.

Case officer Gary Hancox said the warehouse would offer a 'significant' number of jobs but there had been 60 written objections from residents.

CI Industries Ltd had applied for a single storey warehouse on Units 9 to 11, St Leger Drive.

But Cllr Andy Drummond, Mayor of Newmarket, who appealed against the plans on behalf of the town council, said: “It’s a shame. And it’s a shame that some Newmarket town councillors supported it.

“You can see from the council’s point of view that it represents employment, but something else would have represented employment.”

Gail Spoore, a resident of Studlands Park Avenue, who had been fighting the application for two years, said: “I’m horrified. How can we get people to care about their estate when the councils don’t care about their estate? It’s effectively a wall isn’t it? The Berlin Wall.”

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At the council meeting last Wednesday, Cllr Simon Cole said: “What’s been done is definitely an improvement, they’ve taken an absolutely massive, massive, massive building and turned it into two massive buildings.”

The first unit was reduced to 8.25m in height at its eaves, and 11m at its ridge, and the second unit was reduced to 7.5m and 10.9m respectively. The finished floor level would be lower than the adjoining road level.

District Cllr Chris Barker, from Newmarket Town Council, who voted for the proposal, said: “The main reason we [previously rejected the proposal] was that three houses would be overlooked.

“By breaking it up into two parts, the houses will be in the gap in the middle. It’s an industrial estate. It’s your prerogative whether you buy a house there or not.”

Mr Hancox said in his report the amended scheme was more appropriate for the site, both in terms of the shared industrial estate and residential estate character of the area.